Company in the News August-2022

See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this August!

Jonathan Spector’s EUREKA DAY will have its European Premiere at the Old Vic in London, starring Helen Hunt. Read about it here.

Gwen Loeb and Nancy Carlin are starring in HOW TO LET YOUR LOVER DIE by Elana Dykewomon in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, directed by company member Tracy Ward. This Zoom performance is viewable July 30 @6pm and Aug 7 @12pm. Learn more here.

Stephanie Prentice is thrilled to be playing Mama Rose in GYPSY at Hillbarn Theatre opening in September. Learn more here.

Louis Parnell continues to perform in Stephen Sondheim’s FOLLIES in the role of Dimitri Weismann at the San Francisco Playhouse through September 10th. The show plays Tues through Sun evenings with a Sat and Sun matinee. For tickets and more info please visit the SF Playhouse website.

Lizzie Calogero and Norman Gee continue to perform in the SF Mime Troupe’s summer musical comedy, BACK TO THE WAY THINGS WERE, by Michael Gene Sullivan playing for free in parks around the Bay Area. Learn more here.

Norman Gee is also directing local playwright Judith Offer’s COMPARED TO WHAT? at the Masquers Playhouse in Point Richmond in late August/ September. Get tickets here.

The US/English Language Premiere of founding PlayGround Writer, Garret Jon Groenveld‘s THE HUMMINGBIRDS will happen in August at New Jersey Repertory Company. Read about it here.

Madeline Puccioni‘s new full-length play, THE CASSANDRA MURDERS, which was a semifinalist in BAPF 2022, (then titled TIME AFTER TIME AGAIN), will be included in Ross Valley Players’ R.A.W. Festival, in January 2023. Check it out here.

Amy Glazer just locked picture on her feature film, 7000 MILES, that she directed last summer in Hawaii and now is beginning sound design, coloring, etc.! She is heading to Durango Playwrights Festival in Colorado to workshop a new play with Jodi Long and Dan Lauria…dipping her toes back into theatre after a few years away!

Playwright and actor Steven Westdahl returns to San Francisco in Sept. with a one-man show in the SF Fringe Festival (Sept. 9th – 17th) at the EXIT Theater. A previous two-time winner of the Best Of SF Fringe Award (ZURICH PLAYS in ’15 and FINGERTIPS in ’19), this new show collects 16 of Steven’s short plays from his time with the SF Neo-Futurists into a non-illusory theater experience of indeterminacy and audience interaction. Tickets for the four performances of 60 MINUTES OF OUR LIVES are now on sale here.